Petya Kolcheva is one of the founders of Law Firm Novel - Kolcheva, Koev and Partners and its Managing Partner. Her practice involves mostly power, water supply and sanitation, telecommunications, general and specific requirements and legal aspects of infrastructure in Bulgaria, including price regulation, investment plans, real estate infrastructure, business requirements and permits, concessions, public-private partnerships.
Restructuring deals of several big Bulgarian companies. Petya regularly advises bank lenders, investment banks, hedge funds, asset purchasers, and other investors in diverse projects. She is an adviser of an electricity distribution company regarding their holding structure, commercial contracts and anti-trust matters. She also works with venture investment funds as manager of legal teams regarding legal analysis of companies, drafting, negotiating and closing agreements for various types of investment tools and mixture of all available techniques for investments and financing, including hostile acquisitions.
Investors and advised the winning bidder of the Sofia Water Supply and Sanitation concession granted by the Municipality of Sofia first on the participation in the concession procedure and further on various post-concession matters for more than ten years. Her rich practice includes also advice on several public-private partnership projects between Bulgarian municipalities and foreign investors for investments in golf courses and holiday villages.
She has taken active part in drafting or advising the new bills in the energy and telecommunications sectors, she sat on public bodies as legal adviser of the energy distributions companies in relation to such new legislation. She was a consultant on the restructuring of the water and sanitation companies and industry in Bulgaria.
Graduate of the Faculty of Law at Sofia University St. Kiment Ohridski. Member of Sofia Bar since 1990. Member of the International Bar Association. Fluent in English and Russian.
